On 12 August at 23:19 UTC, forty minutes before ICANN's application window closed, we filed the Community application for .agent. We did it. As promised. You cannot apply for a new top-level domain whenever you want. ICANN last opened this window in 2012, and nobody knows when the next one comes. This round closed with 1,600+ applications. One of them is ours. It was carried by a community of nearly 30,000 builders, researchers, and organizations. A majority of members signed letters endorsing the application - Brave, Hugging Face, Replit, Product Hunt, NEAR AI among them, and many, many more. Why do this? Agents are starting to act on people's behalf. When an agent books a flight or signs a contract, the question that matters is simple: who answers for what it just did? A .agent name, if the TLD is delegated, is proposed to make that answer checkable by default. Not a badge you can buy. What it took: - 225 questions. - Months of writing and rewriting. - Five hours just to submit. And the biggest lesson of the whole process? ICANN does not score hopes and believes. The policies we filed are proposed to become binding contract, enforceable by ICANN Compliance. Musts and not just mays The evaluation is still ahead of us and the decisions rest with ICANN. We won't predict anything. And while it is only the beginning of the future, it was a massive milestone. The full story, learnings included: agentcommunity.org/blog/we-f…